Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... writer has frequent occasion to invert the grammatical order of parts in a sen- tence , to put verbs before their subjects , objects and predicate adjectives before their verbs , or adverbial words and phrases at the beginning of the ...
... writer has frequent occasion to invert the grammatical order of parts in a sen- tence , to put verbs before their subjects , objects and predicate adjectives before their verbs , or adverbial words and phrases at the beginning of the ...
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... writer to express the idea in different forms . The following illustration exemplifies this method of variation : Statement : Youth is hopeful . Variations . The young 120 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC . Change of Phraseology.
... writer to express the idea in different forms . The following illustration exemplifies this method of variation : Statement : Youth is hopeful . Variations . The young 120 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC . Change of Phraseology.
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... writer . It reveals how one thinks as well as what one thinks . The word " style " comes from the Latin stylus , a small pointed instrument used by the Romans for writing on waxen tablets . The stylus was to the Roman writer what the ...
... writer . It reveals how one thinks as well as what one thinks . The word " style " comes from the Latin stylus , a small pointed instrument used by the Romans for writing on waxen tablets . The stylus was to the Roman writer what the ...
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... writer or speaker . Words at best are only imperfect representations of our thoughts , in general expressing too little or too much . Therefore , " A man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he useth stands ...
... writer or speaker . Words at best are only imperfect representations of our thoughts , in general expressing too little or too much . Therefore , " A man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he useth stands ...
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... writers and speakers . Campbell defines good usage to be : ( 1 ) Reputable , or the practice of intelligent and ... writer , as in a historical novel , wishes to suggest antiquity , -to characterize the time in which the scene is ...
... writers and speakers . Campbell defines good usage to be : ( 1 ) Reputable , or the practice of intelligent and ... writer , as in a historical novel , wishes to suggest antiquity , -to characterize the time in which the scene is ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer